Discussion: Ian Lee Managing Director IDEO CoLab Ventures; Paul Meed CEO/CoFounder Matter Music; Adam Ettinger Partner FisherBroyles LLP; Josh Pan CoFounder Matter Music; Gili Ovadia VP/Head Global Bus Dev Orbs; MODERATOR: Phil Jeudy Journalist Learn how the Blockchain can disrupt Music & Media! #blockchainmedia
Media
Valerian Bennett, PopChest #fintechmedia
Valerian Bennett Founder/CEO PopChest. Mr. Bennett is a veteran television producer/editor and an award-winning documentary filmmaker. He graduated from USC film and has worked on hit TV shows for E!, MTV, A&E, and many more. As a resident of Los Angeles and native to Silicon Valley, Valerian is perfectly suited to tackle the changing landscape of media distribution by employing cutting-edge blockchain technology. PopChest is the first community-supported video platform. No ads. No subscriptions. Using blockchain technology in our payment-enabled video player, PopChest let’s viewers send a few cents to support the artists they love while giving publishers the ability to make money in a whole new way.
Ryan X. Charles, CEO Yours #fintechmedia
Ryan X. Charles CEO/CoFounder Yours, a social media content sharing app with integrated smart contract micropayments and is the former cryptocurrency engineer of reddit. He has been in the bitcoin space since 2011, and besides reddit, has also worked as an engineer at BitPay, the world’s largest bitcoin payment processor, and BitGo, the world’s largest bitcoin security provider. He is an ABD physics PhD at Washington University in St. Louis.
Laura Lopez, SuchWow Media #fintechmedia
Laura Lopez, Such Wow Media has been enthusiastically sharing the merits of Bitcoin since 2011. She has a Certified Bitcoin Professional certification from the Cryptocurrency Certification Consortium and also works in the entertainment industry as a television editor. She thinks cryptocurrency micropayments are the way forward for content creators and is building Such Wow Media with that in mind.
